Big Picture
Good Morning, Nicki! Plus, Daniel Radcliffe works his magic and Bruce Jenner blasts to the past. Get the latest pics!
MORE PHOTOS +Most Commented
- TV's Top Couples Tournament: Vote in the Final Round! (2036)
- TV's Top Couples Tournament: This Round Is Closed, Please Stand By (698)
- Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Photos Galore! New Pics From Their Post-Twilight Flicks! (606)
- Afternoon Mail! Are Gleeks Having More Sex Than Vamps? (586)
- TV's Top Couple Tournament: And the Winner Is... (504)
- Beyoncé and Jay-Z Share First Photos of Baby Blue Ivy! (398)
- Whitney Houston Dead at 48 (396)
- Twitter Name Change: Introducing @Ted_Casablanca (267)
- Life After Breaking Dawn?! Maybe, Says Studio Head! (226)
- Morning Mail! Céline Dion Talks Whitney Houston's Tragic Death (222)
Top 10 Stories
- Jennifer Lopez Tweets, Then Deletes, Steamy Casper Smart Shot—Check It Out!
- Bobby Brown Rejoins New Edition Tour—Which Touches Down Near Whitney Houston's Funeral
- Gary Busey's Stuff Detailed for Bankruptcy Filing: VHS Tapes, Tepees and Tambourines
- Whitney Houston Remembered by Sparkle Producer: "Almost a Magic About Her"
- Miley Cyrus "Better Watch" Hunger Games, Says Liam Hemsworth
- Colbert Report Mystery Shutdown: Production Suspended Due to "Unforeseen Circumstances"
- Kevin Costner? Aretha Franklin? Bobby Brown? Latest Details on Whitney Houston's Funeral
- Diddy Remembers Whitney Houston: "She Was So Full of Life"
- Royal Feud Shocker! Sean Penn Slams Prince William's "Unthinkable" Deployment
- Real Housewives' Michaele Salahi & Journey's Neal Schon: Tareq Salahi Is the One Tormenting Us!
Fashion Police
Our Partners
Spielberg, DGA Noms: Together Again
Just when Munich seemed out of the Oscar race, Steven Spielberg pulled it back in.
The filmmaker netted a Directors Guild of America nomination as Best Director Thursday, ensuring his epic look at the 1972 Summer Olympics terror attack and its knotty aftermath will remain in the Oscar discussion. At least, that is, until the field is unveiled Jan. 31.
George Clooney and Ang Lee, meanwhile, have been in the Academy Award hunt for months. And their DGA nominations only furthered the cause.
Clooney, better known as the jet-setting movie star, is up for his no-nonsense, black-and-white remembrance of witch hunts past, Good Night, and Good Luck.
Lee, who won the DGA Award in 2000 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is nominated for Brokeback Mountain, the gay cowboy tearjerker that, given its award-season haul, could just as easily be identified as the film to beat.
Rounding out the DGA nominees: Crash's Paul Haggis, who wrote of 2004 Oscar favorite Million Dollar Baby; and Capote's Bennett Miller, a newcomer whose lone Internet Movie Database biographical detail reveals that he went to high school with Judging Amy's Dan Futterman. (Futterman penned the Capote screenplay.)
Spielberg's nomination is his 10th, a record. Demonstrating his dominance, the old record was held by Spielberg, too.
The latest Spielberg nod comes as his latest film was about to go quietly--and likely empty-handed--into the night, à la Peter Jackson's King Kong. The latter has loomed large in its absence from the Producers Guild nominations, the Writers Guild nominations, the Screen Actors Guild nominations and, now, the Directors Guild nominations.
Like Kong, Munich was passed over by ballot-casting producers, writers and actors. If Spielberg's fellow directors hadn't come through for him, it might have been the end for the movie's award aspirations.
Even the DGA recognition might not be enough to make an Oscar player of Munich, so far more successful as an op-ed instigator. A 1998 DGA nomination for Spielberg's slave-revolt docudrama Amistad couldn't overcome carping about what was or wasn't its source material. In the end, the movie was shut out of the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay races.
The DGA Award has been regarded as the most accurate predictor of Oscar success. All but six of its 57 winners have followed their DGA triumphs with Best Director triumphs at the Oscars. Half of those exceptions, though, have occurred in the last decade, the most recent in 2003 when Chicago's Rob Marshall won the DGA, but The Pianist's Roman Polanski won the Oscar.
On account of not being nominated, Marshall cannot win his second DGA for Memoirs of a Geisha. Similarly, Woody Allen cannot make the Hollywood Foreign Press look good by turning his wealth of Match Point Golden Globe nominations into a single DGA bid. And by not making the DGA field himself, Walk the Line's James Mangold might be bound to find out what it's like when your film earns a Best Picture Oscar nomination, but you don't make the Best Director race.
The 58th annual Directors Guild of America Awards are scheduled to be presented Jan. 28 in Los Angeles.
0 Comments
Now loading...